Sound notification doesn't work

[lizardmenke]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

In hardy this was just fine.
In Jaunty there is no sound notification anymore (regression).
It is still possible to tick the plug-in in preferences, but it just doesn't work.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xchat-gnome
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xchat-gnome 1:0.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xchat-gnome
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[lizardmenke (lizardmenke)]

This is a static situation.

To reproduce:
Start xchat-gnome open preferences->scripts and plugins-> notification sounds. (these may be called differently as I have a dutch install)
Then enter a few words that should be highlighted when mentioned in a conversation in the section preferences.

Now there should be played a (ping..) sound every time one of these words occurs in a conversation (i.e your callsign).

In hardy this works fine ( I have one laptop still on hardy), But in Jaunty there is no sound anymore. ( laptop, desktop and netbook).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Changing to new, t it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sean Garner (seanlgarner)]

Not sure if it's an upstream bug as such... it's looking for a wav file that isn't there.

sudo ln -s /usr/share/sounds/question.wav /usr/share/sounds/info.wav

That seems to be a workaround in my case.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman)]

This is still a bug for me in Natty and is fixed by Sean's workaround above.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xchat-gnome (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]